Dr. W. Ogle's report to the local government board on the prevalence of scarlet fevre in the Pontypool registration sub-district, and on the general sanitary condition of that sub-district.

  • Ogle, W.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Dr. W. Ogle's report to the local government board on the prevalence of scarlet fevre in the Pontypool registration sub-district, and on the general sanitary condition of that sub-district. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Recommendations. Pontypool Urban Sanitary District. 1. The Local Board should obtain the aid of a competent engineer in order to ascertain in detail the actual state of the sewerage of the town, with a view of remedying such defects as exist in regard to structure, ventilation, or flushing; of making such extensions as may be required ; and of depurating the sewage before it reaches the river, or of diverting it altogether from the river and utilising it. 2. Houses without any, or with insufficient, closet accommodation should be dealt with under the powers conferred by the Public Health Act (§ 36): and measures should be taken for furnishing waterclosets, now hand-flushed, with proper flushing apparatus, and for giving them a due supply of water. 3. Houses in which the air is necessarily foul owing to the want of proper means of ventilation should be dealt with as unfit for human habitation, until efficient ventilation lias been provided. 4. More efficient supervision should be exercised over slaughter-houses, and generally over such trades as are likely to cause nuisance; and the byelaws relating to slaughter-houses and to nuisances generally should be strictly enforced. 5. Measures should be taken by the Local Board to ensure the due and efficient filtration of all water delivered by the water company for domestic use. 6. It is necessary that hospital accommodation should be provided for the isolation of cases of infectious diseases, as also an efficient oven for the dis- infection of clothes and bedding ; and that the provisions of the Public Health Act against the spreading of infection by the exposure of infected persons or things should be enforced. Panteg Urban Sanitary District. 1. The present arrangement of closets, by which the privy pits communi- cate directly with the sewers, should be at once given up and a proper water- closet system with trapped pans and efficient flushing apparatus be substituted. 2. In places where, owing to absence of a sewer or for other reasons a proper watercloset system is impossible, a dry system of excrement disposal should be adopted, founded on the report of the Local Government Board on the means of preventing excrement nuisance in towns and villages. 3. Measures should be taken for the more efficient flushing and ventilation of the present sewers. 4. The water supply derived from the wells now in use should be, as far as practicable, discarded; wells so situated as to be liable to pollution should be closed, and a supply from the water company’s mains substituted whenever possible for the water now in use. 5. The recommendation made in the case of Pontypool (6) in regard to hospital accommodation, and disinfection applies equally to Panteg. Abersychan Urban Sanitary District. 1. It is desirable that the progressive sanitary work, which appears to have been lately interrupted in this district, should be again entered upon with as little delay as practicable, and systematically pursued throughout the different villages and hamlets. 2. The Local Board should obtain the advice of a competent engineer as to the works of sewerage, both as regards the necessary extensions, the general arrangements for flushing and ventilation, and the disposal of the sewage without fouling the water-courses. 3. Houses with deficient closet accommodation should be dealt with under clause 36 of the Public Health Act; and where it is impracticable to supply such houses with properly constructed waterclosets a dry system of excre- ment disposal, founded on the principles set forth in the Local Government Board’s Report on the means of preventing excrement nuisances in towns and villages, should be adopted.